Cloud computing is underpinning efforts to help solve some of sciences biggest mysteries, such as discovering the elusive Higgs particle.
A consortium of IT providers have joined forces with three European science research centres – Cern, EMBL, and ESA – to create a cloud platform which will unite their IT infrastructures. The two year Science Cloud pilot will focus on three key projects; Cern’s work with the Large Hadron Collider accelerator, Biomedical Geonomic research, and studying the causes of natural disasters.
“CERN’s computing capacity needs to keep-up with the enormous amount of data coming from the Large Hadron Collider and we see Helix Nebula, the Science Cloud as a great way of working with industry to meet this challenge,” said Frédéric Hemmer, head of CERN’s IT department.
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